What do users say
I've been using Aba Search And Replace for just three hours now, and already I have saved, quite easily, 20-25 hours worth of work I would have had to do without the use of your program. I really appreciate you for creating such a simple and useful tool.
Jonathan Kraft, IdentityTheftSecrets.com
This is a very well-written search / search-and-replace utility. Lean, exceptionally fast, easy to use. This was one of those utilities that I don't normally need, but after checking out the website and features, even though there are freeware offerings, this was well worth the purchase just to have available. The incremental search speed is astonishing.
Replacing text in several files used to be a tedious and error-prone task. Aba Search and Replace solves the problem, allowing you to correct errors on your web pages, replace banners and copyright notices, change method names, and perform other text-processing tasks.
Features
- Incremental search: you can immediately see the results as you are typing the text to search for.
- Multi-line search and replace.
- Regular expression support including lookaround, non-greedy matching, and other advanced features.
- Replace in Unicode files (UTF-8, UTF-16).
- Preview before replacement: other tools require confirmation for each replacement, while Aba shows the list of replacements in context. You can review the list and confirm the changes at once.
- Undo for any replacement.
- Search history and favorites.
- Syntax highlight for regular expressions, HTML, CSS, JS, and PHP files.
- Integration with Windows Explorer and Total Commander.
- Context-sensitive help, references and tutorial included.
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Usage examples
For web designers:
- changing headers, menus, meta tags, footers, copyright notices, and other repetitive elements of your web pages;
- adding 'registered trademark' sign ®, ™ to every occurrence of your product name;
- cleaning the output of an automated conversion tool (for example, a PDF to HTML converter).
For programmers:
- inserting a header with the author name, copyrights, etc. to the beginning of each source code file;
- renaming a class, method, or function and even adding or removing method parameters.
News
January 3, 2012. Aba 2.2 was released. New features include lookaround, braces, \b anchor, and non-capturing groups in regular expressions. Thanks to Stefan Schuck for the updated German translation.